Title: 1000 Airplanes on the Roof in - FOB and and Other Plays / COL Author: Hwang, David Henry Glass, Philip Publisher: New American Library 1990
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Title: 1000 Airplanes on the Roof in - FOB and and Other Plays / COL Author: Hwang, David Henry Glass, Philip Publisher: New American Library 1990 Description: roy music-drama - monologue all male cast; one character one male four parts A science-fiction music-drama realized by Philip Glass, David Henry Hwang, and Jerome Sirlin. A 90-minute monologue. Title: 15 Seconds Author: Archambault, Francois translated by Bobby Theodore Publisher: Talonbooks 1998 Description: roy comedy four characters three male; one female one act Brimming with a dark and brittle humour, FIFTEEN SECONDS is a play about a young female advertising copy writer, her pro-sports-fan ex-boyfriend, a Gen-X welfare-bum loser and his brother handicapped by cerebral palsy. These four characters are constantly making choices about reality and illusion; imagination and fantasy; the hale and the handicapped - about the way things are and the way they might be. They are utterly unable to imagine each other, and though they all remember that they should try to do so, they seem to have forgotten from where this moral Title: 24 Favorite One Act Plays Author: Publisher: Doubleday 1958 Description: collection - drama includes: 27 Wagons Full of Cotton - Tennessee Williams Spreading the News - Lady Gregory A Marriage Proposal - Anton Chekhov In the Shadow of the Glen - J. M. Synge Cathleen ni Houlihan - W.B. Yeats The Jest of Hahalaba - Lord Dunsany Trifles - Susan Glaspell The Happy Journey - Thornton Wilder The Ugly Duckling - A.A. Milne Title: 2B (or not 2B) in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL Author: Reingold, Jacquelyn Publisher: Vintage Books 2007 Description: roy comedy two characters one male; one female one act suggested for high school. What happens when Franny, heart broken and single, is seduced by a giant Bee who needs a Queen? Title: 39 Steps, The Author: Barlow, Patrick Buchan, John Publisher: Samuel French 2009 Description: roy comedy - mystery four characters three male; one female two acts Patrick Barlow's adaptation of John Buchan's "The 39 Steps". In "The 39 Steps", a man with a boring life meets a woman with a thick accent who says she's a spy. When he takes her home, she is murdered. Soon, a mysterious organization called "The 39 Steps" is hot on the man's trail in a nationwide manhunt that climaxes in a death-defying finale! A riotous blend of virtuoso performances and wildly inventive stagecraft, "The 39 Steps" amounts to Title: 3:59 AM: A Drag Race for Two Actors in - Humana Festival 2009 / COL Author: Ramirez, Marco Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2009 Description: roy drama all male cast; two characters two male one act 10 minute play. Award-winning play about a behind-the-wheel encounter between two men on the edge. Title: 50 Below Zero in - Munsch at Play / CHC Author: Watts, Irene N. Munsch, Robert Publisher: Annick Press 2010 Description: roy comedy - children eight to ten characters two boys, one girl, five to seven boys or girls one act Irene N. Watts' adaptation of Robert Munsch's work. Jason tries to wake his father as he is sleepwalking. Title: Absalom in - Humana Festival 2009 / COL Author: Kazan, Zoe Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2009 Description: roy drama - family relations six characters four male; two female four scenes "At a Berkshires country house, the children of an aging literary giant gather for a party celebrating the release of their patriarch's tell-all autobiography. When an unexpected guest appears, this family — writers or editors all — must reckon with their stories and who owns them, and with the secrets, betrayals and deep bonds that define what they'll do for love." Title: Actor in You, The Sixteen simple steps to understanding the art of acting Author: Benedetti, Robert Publisher: Pearson Education 2009 Description: This book serves as an introduction to beginning acting by helping students realize that they already possess the basic skills of an actor. It draws on exercises and examples from student's everyday lives, well known plays, and popular television programs to lead the beginning student through the process of creating a role. Organized in sixteen steps that can correspond to the weeks of a typical semester, the fourth edition of THE ACTORS IN YOU continues to provide a direct, concise presentation of acting fundamentals for beginning students. Title: Adopt a Sailor Author: Evered, Charles Publisher: Broadway Play Publishing Inc. 2007 Description: roy drama three characters two male; one female one act A play about three human beings who normally wouldn't be in the same state let alone the same apartment together. Yet still, all three find they have more in common that they might ever have imagined. Title: After Magritte Author: Stoppard, Tom Publisher: Faber and Faber 1971 Description: roy avant garde comedy five characters three male; two female one act Three people witness a mundane incident and each gives legitimate reasons for absurd arguments as they describe the event. Finally, irrational, pompous policeman supplies solution. Title: After You Author: Carley, Dave Publisher: Scirocco Drama 1995 Description: roy drama six characters (doubling) one male; four female two acts Adele is dying and Jean is helping her. The cousins have come back to the family cottage on Lake Kawartha so that the stroke-ravaged Adele may die with peace and dignity. Jean methodically administers the required drugs but memory refuses to release its hold on either woman. The cottage and lake conjure up the ghosts of their former selves, and of the young man who was, to their minds, the "fork in the road" that determined the path of their lives. Title: Afterimage Author: Chafe, Robert Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2009 Description: roy drama eight characters four male; four female one act Lise Lacoeur was used to being shunned by everyone around her. Her gift to see flashes of the future had left her ostracized from her town and community. But Lise’s life of solitude came to an end when burn victim Winston Evans is admitted to the hospital where Lise works. Seeing beyond Winston’s disfiguring scars and foreseeing a future with him, Lise falls in love and the couple soon marry. Years later, having inherited Lise’s gift, two of their children, Theresa and Jerome, must struggle to find their place within the community. But for Leo, their middle child, that is just Title: Afterlife in - Plays: 4 (Michael Frayn) / COL Author: Frayn, Michael Publisher: Methuen & Co 2010 Description: roy drama - historical seven characters; extras five male; two female two acts revised for this collection. "Max Reinhardt, one the greatest impresarios of theatrical history, had a lifelong ambition - to dissolve the boundary between theatre and the world it portrays. Each year at the Salzburg Festival he directed a famous morality play, Everyman, about God sending Death to summon a representative of mankind for judgment. The victim he chooses is a man who, like Reinhardt, Title: Aftermath in - American Theatre (April 2010) / PER Author: Blank, Jessica Jensen, Erik Publisher: Miscellaneous 2010 Description: roy drama - documentary - Iraq - war nine characters six male; three female one act minimalist set. With Aftermath, Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen, the award winning creators of The Exonerated, return to the genre of documentary theatre with a powerful exploration of the Iraq war from the perspective of everyday Iraqi citizens and how their lives changed forever the day the Americans arrived in their country. Title: ALiCE Author: McDonough, Jerome Carroll, Lewis Publisher: I. E. Clark, Inc. 1990 Description: roy fantasy - children large cast flexible casting one act playing time: 25 min. This one-act dramatization of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass is distinguished by the inventive manner with which Jerome McDonough handles Alice's various changes in size and the numerous changes of setting, with no breaks in the action. Because of his ingenious directions for making all the magical special effects easy to stage, this version is fun to Title: Aliens, The in - American Theatre (July/August 2010) / PER Author: Baker, Annie Publisher: Miscellaneous 2010 Description: roy drama - music all male cast; three characters three male two acts Two angry young men sit outside a Vermont coffee shop and discuss music and Bukowski. When a lonely high school student arrives on the scene, they decide to teach him everything they know. A play with music and shrooms. Title: All for Love; or, The World Well Lost in - Restoration Plays / COL Author: Dryden, John Publisher: Random House 1953 Description: nonroy Restoration - tragedy twelve characters; extras six male; four female; two girls five acts 1 interior set. "English Restoration tragedy. Adaptation of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra done in blank verse." Title: Alone at Last! in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL Author: Barrett, GIna Publisher: Vintage Books 2007 Description: roy comedy nine characters five male; four female one act A simple makeout session between two teenagers is complicated by the intrusion of a chorus of advice and commentary from parents, friends and other intruders. Title: Altar Boyz - vocal selections Author: Adler, Gary Walker, Michael Patrick Publisher: Williamson Music, Inc. 2005 Description: Vocal selections from the musical. includes: We are the Altar Boyz Rhythm in Me Church Rulez The Calling The Miracle Song Everybody Fits Something About You Body Mind & Soul La Vida Eternal Title: Amahl and the Night Visitors - opera in - The Twelve Plays of Christmas / CHR Author: Menotti, Gian-Carlo Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2000 Description: roy opera - Christmas - religious six characters; chorus; extras five male; one female one act The libretto of the favorite Christmas opera, as beautiful to read as to hear. Title: American Hwangap in - The Best New Playwrights 2009 / COL Author: Suh, Lloyd Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2009 Description: roy drama - Korean-American five characters three male; two female eighteen scenes running time: 90 minutes.